and then the city council bailed us out and gave us enough support to keep this school open. $1.5 million last year. we went back, asked again, and they granted that wish. and we're just relieved and pleased. and we know we're not out of the woods yet. we have a long-term solution that we have to come up, but putting our heads together, work together, we believe we can do that working with the city. >> reporter: well, ultimately the city decided to do this, but i believe there was one council member that had some concerns that perhaps the schoolboard was using the city as an atm, going back for more money. what do you say to that? >> last night that was a common theme that was put out there by councilman bates, but he's a well-intentioned person, been on the council far while, and i think he was just expressing his frustration about the current situation and know that cities and schools traditionally haven't had a collaboration. but now moving forward in the future, 21st century thinking, we have to find every way to fund our schools. so the city coming together with us to make this happe